The PNR status code leave many passengers confused because of the abbreviations and symbols used. Each code or abbreviations has its own meaning which helps you to know your status.
The codes and their meanings are given below to help you understand their meaning.

Various codes in the PNR status

• CAN/MOD – Cancelled or Modified Passenger
• CNF / Confirmed – Confirmed (Coach/Berth number will be available after chart preparation)
• CK – Tatkal Quota
• CKWL- Tatkal Waiting List. This means that when the waiting list moves up, it goes to the category RAC and might get confirmed too.
• GNWL- General Waiting List
• PQWL – Pooled Quota Wait list
• RAC – Reservation against Cancellation. The seat is confirmed but the berth needs to be shared between two passengers. Later individual berth might be allotted if RAC becomes a CNF ticket.
• REGRET – No More Booking Permitted
• RELEASED – Ticket Not Cancelled but Alternative Accommodation Provided
• R# # – RAC Coach Number Berth Number. Same berth will be shared by the two RAC passengers as per their allotted berth.
• WL # – Waiting List Number

Indian Railways is owned and operated by the Government of India with the help of the Ministry of Railways. The Indian Railway Is the world’s largest railway network.

Indian Railways have over 1.307 million employees, which makes it world’s ninth largest commercial employer. Indian Railways network brings the social, cultural and economical fabric of the country.

The first railway than ran on Indian sub-continent was from Bombay to Thane on 16th April 1853. Later in 1951, the systems were nationalized as the Indian railways. Indian Railway operates long distance as well as suburban rail systems on a multi-gauge network of broad gauge, metre gauge and narrow gauges.
Indian Railway’s operations cover twenty nine states and seven union territories. It also provides international (limited) services to Nepal , Bangladesh and Pakistan.

Indian Railways is a huge network, which obviously make it very difficult to provide different kind of facilities to each and every one. To simplify this process it provides different services to the passengers.
Earlier people have to go to the stations to make the reservations, check seat availability, PNR status etc.
As the technologies have been so useful to provide the same facilities in an easier way. Now we have a website called www.indianrail.gov.in which makes is a lot easier for citizens to make reservations, check seat availability, fare inquiry, PNR status etc.

PNR status

-What is PNR?

PNR stands for Passenger Name Record. PNR number is a 10 digit numerical code. We can find it on the railway ticket.
• When you purchase a ticket by going to the railway station, you get a printed ticket, you can see your PNR number on the top-left of the ticket.
• When you purchase a ticket online, then you get an electronic ticket , you can see your PNR number on the top tight of the ticket.

-How to know PNR status?

By using that PNR number you can check your status. To check it online you can go to the website www.indianrail.gov.in/index.html and click on the PNR Status option.

Enter the PNR for your booking below to get the current status. After entering the 10 digit PNR number in the given text box, Click on “get status”. As soon as you finish the process you can see you PNR status within seconds.

PNR Enquiry by phone call
To inquire regarding your current reservation merely dial 139 from your mounted phone or smartphone and follow the instruction given by the IVR system. once asked for pnr no. give it and you’ll get yourpnr Status.

PNR Enquiry on Indian railway.

Indian Railway Train ticket PNR staus Explained:

also try tatkal booking on irctc.

Check PNR status on Mobile phone through sms

What if you can not access internet? How do you check your PNR status! Now you don’t have to worry about that either. There are several services provided by Indian Railway which helps you to check your PNR status through any mobile phone.
Now you can get railways information on SMS.
• You just need to send a SMS to 54959
– SMS HELP TRN to 54959 and get a list of all the services provided and their commands.
– SMS TRNLINK to 54959 and get a link to access those services using WAP.

To check PNR status
– Sms PNR <10 – digit PNR no. > to 54959

IRCTC has also launched facility also i.e., Sms on 139 and avail the several services like PNR enquiry , fare enquiry, train arrival and departure enquiry, train time table, accommodation availability, train name/ number . For PNR status sms “PNR < 10 – digit PNR number>” to 139
For example: PNR 1232343456
There is one more number provided by Indian Railways for PNR enquiry and that is 5676747. There are charges applicable on sending sms to this number.

IRCTC Tatkal Booking

Tatkal means immediately and that makes tatkal booking as immediate booking. This scheme is for the passengers who need to travel without any planning in advance or for a journey at very short notice due to several reasons.Tatkal booking opens at 10:00 AM on One day in advance of actual date of journey excluding date of journey. These tickets can be booked on the counter or online.
The tickets are only issued when the passenger shows a copy of identity at the time of booking. It can be a PAN card (personal account number),passport, Driver’s license etc.
There are no separate trains as of named “tatkal train”. Non utilized tatkal tickets are given to wait-listed passengers. Tatkal tickets can be cancelled but there would be no refund made.

Indian Railway Tatkal booking Hours

This scheme had been misused by passengers and because of that from July 10, 2012 the ministry of railways has changed the timings to book tatkal tickets. Now booking is done from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm .No one is allowed to book the tickets after 12:00 pm.

Applications for android, ios for PNR status checking

As we all know, every other person is using a smart phones and Iphones etc. Just as the market demand, the developers had also developed few apps (applications) for these android and Ios phones.
Google play “the app store” for the androids provide many apps for the users some them are PNR status and train info ,

How To Check The IRCTC PNR Status Online

Huge population in India is travelling through Train as it is the convenient and affordable medium of travel. Everyone likes to make the luxurious travel from one place to another so that traveling through Train is quite suitable and enjoyable. Find out the PNR status of the Train even from your Smartphone via internet. PNR is online documentation for Indian railway reservation system and it is the short name for the Passenger Name Record. PNR is the record database of the Indian Railways computer reservation system that stores the journey details of the passenger and group of passengers. In fact the passenger must provide the information including

Name of the passenger

Gender

Age

Berth preference

Contact information

Date of journey

Train number

Class of travel

PNR is issued by central reservation system so that they are generally printed at the top of left corner of the printed tickets. When you are checking for the PNR Status, you would be surprised that Railway Corporation also changes with course of time. Checking the PNR status is most important so that it would be quite useful to make sure that every information is exact and right.

How to check the PNR status:

There are many techniques for checking the PNR status that are designed for the IRCTC PNR Status enquiry information and checking the online train PNR STATUS enquiry.

PNR status railway is the most important method for the confirmation of the travel plans without visiting the booking office physically. Checking the ticket status with the click of PNR number is quite useful and enhancing more option for convenient travel. When you are accessing the website, then you need to enter your 10 digit numbers into the box so that you could get the instant ticket information conveniently. There are various options are available for check online train IRCTC PNR status enquiry that includes

PNR status enquiry via online websites

Current reservation status check via SMS

Railway enquiry counters in the Railway Station

Mobile applications access

When you like to get the PNR status check via SMS method, then you need to have a code for sending the message provided in the number. Dial 139 toll free number from your mobile or landline to know about the PNR status.

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